March 26, 2011

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Tim Kaine may not have a clear shot at the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in Virginia after all.

The AP moves a story on Rep. Bobby Scott's ruminations.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott says he may be ready to move to the Senate after 19 years in Washington.

Virginia's first - and only - black U.S. House member in the modern era said in an Associated Press telephone interview he will decide by July whether to seek the seat Democratic Sen. Jim Webb plans to vacate next year

Scott said he's frustrated with the partisanship in a Republican House and a Democratic minority that has little say there.

He said the Senate offers more opportunity to address issues such as a deeply unbalanced federal budget that says Republicans would worsen with deep tax cuts for the rich.

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Sounds like Bobby is ready to deal with our real problems...."tax cuts for the rich"...yeah that will get you as far in the Senate as it did in the House. I guess it was OK with him when Nancy was ramming things thru last year, but now he is going to take his ball and go home.

Bobby is a good loyal Democrat. He'll only run in Kaine desn't. I've been living in his district for three years now & met him a few times. According to opencongress.org, he's voted with the Democrats 94% of the time, including on Healthcare, the Stimulus, TARP, and a bunch of other tricky votes. That'll only hurt him in a state like VA. If Scott runs, Allen will bury him by a 10% margin. And if Scott takes on Kaine in a primary, Kaine wins but it'll cost Dems the election.

I hope Scott runs since Kaine is by far one of the worst Governor in Virginia history. Kaine was even for ticketing only VA residence for certain traffic violations and our taxes have been out of control since he was Governor. At least now they are starting to get under control since he left...thank goodness.

I think its funny that the repubs have been in charge for almost 4 months and Bobby Scott is already tired of the partisanship - of which he was a key part when he was in the majority. Look what he did during the Rangel hearing - not ony partisan for the dems but for the CBC brothers and sisters as well. I like him, I really do, but I think he has peaked in his political career- since he refuses to hold a brother accountable.

Bobby Scott has about as much of winning a Senate seat in Virginia as Sarah Palin does of winning one in Massachusetts. The one thing he's got going for him is that he's a lot less corrupt than most of the CBC. Allen by 20 if he's the nominee.

Tax cuts to the rich aren't the problem??? LOL GE paid no taxes last year, and in fact received 32 billion BACK from the government. All this after they've moved 60% of their manufacturing overseas. Yeah, sure. No problem here at all. Let's go shake down some teachers for the money.

Posted By: Tax cuts to the rich aren't the problem??? LOL GE paid no taxes last year, and in fact received | March 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM